This year’s Seafood Buffet & Auction will be held on
Thursday, July 9, 2026 from 5:30 – 9:30 PM
at Tisbury Wharf (144 Beach Road, Vineyard Haven, MA)
The event’s setting showcases Vineyard Haven’s working harbor, and the event celebrates Sail MV’s ties with local businesses and the island’s maritime community. For the buffet dinner, we source our lobsters from the Fishermen’s Trust, many of whose members are graduates of Sail MV programs. Our island is utterly dependent on the ability to transport people and goods to and from the mainland via the waters that surround us. Helping young people to enter the maritime industry is essential to our future. This event brings Sail MV’s students and benefactors together to help preserve and protect our island’s maritime heritage.
Register below:
Or scroll down for pictures of past events
Pictures below from last year’s Seafood Buffet & Auction
and from a few years before that…
We accept monetary donations via fee-free programs at Paypal, MV Bank Lift program, and by old-fashioned check sent to:
Sail Martha’s Vineyard
PO Box 1998
Vineyard Haven, MA 02568
Click here to donate using our online form:
Thank you to all who support Sail MV
Grantors include:
Martha’s Vineyard Community Foundation
Beagary Charitable Trust
West Chop Community Foundation
Tower Foundation
Flutie Foundation
Cape and Islands United Way
Wianno Sailing Foundation
Rockland Trust
Maurice Amado Foundation
Kolchinsky Foundation
And the Sponsors of our 2026 summer events, the Seafood Buffet & Auction and Vineyard Cup regatta
Edgartown Books
Hutker Architects
Cronig’s Markets
South Mountain Company
John and Charlotte Klein
GE Vernova
SBS One Source
Peggy Schwier Gardens
Tisbury Wharf Company
Cape Cod 5
Beverly Fearey
Land and Sea Carpentry
Joseph Grillo
Volunteers:
Please contact admin@sailmv.org if you are interested in volunteering for the Seafood Buffet or Vineyard Cup party.
And finally: Please consider sponsoring Sail MV
Remember when you played with plastic boats on the beach and dreamed of sailing away over the horizon? Sail Martha’s Vineyard was founded in 1992 to help young islanders realize those dreams. Each year we teach around 400 kids how to pilot their own boats around Lagoon Pond. Sail MV’s Maritime Studies program at MVRHS helps students step into maritime careers, and the MVRHS sailing team has grown into a New England power on the water.
For adults, the Sail MV Rowing Club provides year-round rowing opportunities, and Sail MV’s Winter Lectures. bring an opportunity to learn and dine with friends of Sail MV. We have a small, dedicated staff that works year-round behind the scenes and we hire an additional 10-15 staff to teach our summer programs, in which we provide over $160,000 worth of scholarships every year so that Island kids can access our program for free. We couldn’t do it without you!
Sponsorship Levels:
Frigate $10,000: Wages of summer chief instructor
Includes a large banner and a table for 10 at the Seafood Buffet & Auction
Schooner $5,000: Cost of a Hartley 10
Includes a banner and 5 tickets to the Seafood Buffet & Auction
Sloop $2,500: A week’s tuition for 3 Island students
Includes a banner and two tickets to the Seafood Buffet & Auction
Catboat $1,000: A suit of sails for a 420
Includes placement on a shared banner and one ticket to the Seafood Buffet & Auction
420 $500: Subsidizes 1 week of intermediate camp for an Island student
Includes placement on a shared banner at the Seafood Buffet & Auction
Optimist $250: cost of ½ day of summer staff wages
All sponsors will receive recognition on the Sail MV website, in emails, and in the annual newsletter.
Contact us to learn more:
508-696-7644
admin@sailmv.org
Sail MV
PO Box 1998
Vineyard Haven, MA 02568
One Vineyard, One Sea, One Sail MV!